Challenges and needs for China to eliminate rabies

Table 1 Distribution of rabies-related scientific articles from Mainland China by category group, 1963 – 2012

	Scientific articles
	In English, n = 114	In Chinese, n = 75	Total, N = 189	%
Journal type
General	101	16	117	61.9%
Human	11	59	70	37.0%
Animal	2	0	2	1.1%
Sector
Human	56	61	117	61.9%
Animal	36	4	40	21.2%
General	22	10	32	16.9%
Setting
Lab-based	86	49	135	71.4%
Clinical/facility-based	15	8	23	12.2%
Urban community based	1	3	4	2.1%
Urban-Rural (mixed)	11	14	25	13.2%
Occupational	0	0	0	0.0%
Rural community based	1	1	2	1.1%
Species
Pathogen	59	37	96	50.8%
Human	30	29	59	31.2%
Dog	11	3	14	7.4%
Multiple animals	14	6	20	10.6%
Immuno-genetics	19	11	30
Basic epidemiology	36	27	63	100.0%
Case studies or outbreak reports in humans and animals	17	4	21	33.3%
Seroprevalence in animals	3	4	7	11.1%
Surveillance data and risk factors	6	14	20	31.7%
*PEP patients’ analysis	9	1	10	15.9%
Costs of treatment	0	1	1	1.6%
Level of awareness in public and health care workers	1	3	4	6.3%
Vaccines and diagnostics development	26	10	36
Virology - Molecular epidemiology	30	20	50	100.0%
Virology	11	15	26	52.0%
Molecular epidemiology	14	3	17	34.0%
Modeling - dynamics	5	2	7	14.0%
Review	4	6	10
Evidence based policies and systems analysis	0	0	0
Evidence-based practices or new interventions
Dogs management	0	0	0
Caracteristics of dogs: pop. estimates/of owned	0	0	0
Development of Monitoring and Evaluation tools	0	0	0
Evidence-based advocacy
Disease burden - incidence	0	0	0
Cost of illness	0	0	0

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